Date of birth: 1912-09-06
Place of birth: Partney, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

1976-12-19
Throughout his life, William Wilson finds himself being shadowed by another William Wilson, who seem

1958-02-07
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto

1956-01-01
A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

1978-03-15
In the 23rd Century, Britain (now called Albion) is made up of two distinct communities - the Aggros

1950-10-01
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
1959-08-07
In wartime, an English spy must go into neutral territory to murder a fellow-Englishman who has been

1955-02-24
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in lov

1966-01-02
Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half

1949-04-21
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examini

1953-05-25
A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In the
1950-02-06
A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.
1964-01-01
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the international co-operation involved in developing

1949-05-13
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live c

1948-11-05
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938

1949-05-24
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.

1952-09-10
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from h

1956-06-29
A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden

1949-02-01
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was

1954-01-20
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major

1964-08-19
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attem

1941-03-04
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Min

1948-02-05
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the

1957-06-01
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flatter

1947-08-20
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be
1960-10-23
A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decay
1944-01-02
A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

1956-04-10
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor

1943-07-26
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activi

1942-06-15
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the wal

1959-06-18
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to h

1951-01-01
The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woo

Is there anyone out there? Cheshire's Jodrell Bank observatory aims to find out with its new giant r

1958-01-01
Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by Br

1960-01-01
A day in the life of insurance agent Mr Smith, who will die as a result of a road accident.

1973-11-01
Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee
1954-01-01
The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden

1958-08-24
Between the Tides is a 1958 short documentary directed by Ralph Keene for British Transport Films.It
1961-01-02
The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.
1975-01-02
Examines Britian's industrial heritage, concentrating on the period between 1708 and 1850, and showi

1964-01-02
A tribute to William Shakespeare devised by Geoffrey Buckland-Smith and made in connection with the

1938-10-06
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Dooli

1980-05-23
The Mozart Cafe explodes, a city is blacked out, a great newspaper goes to the wall, and a prophet i

1957-01-01
Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful s